Our Year Of Unexpected Outcomes

On May 2, 2016, with a 2-2 draw between Tottenham and Chelsea, Leicester City clinched the league title for the first time in their 132-year history. The BBC called it "one of the greatest sporting stories of all time." Leicester were 5,000-to-1 underdogs before the Premier League season started.

In the year since:

The Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA championship by becoming the first team ever to came back from a 3-1 deficit in the Finals.

Great Britain voted to leave the European Union.

The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years.

Donald Trump was elected president.

The New England Patriots won the Super Bowl after spotting the Atlanta Falcons a 99.8% win probability.

And Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture after it had already been awarded to La La Land.

Before his election, back in October, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump laid out a 100 Day Action Plan. He called it his Contract With The American Voter. Among other things, it called for the full repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, suspension of immigration from certain "terror-prone regions," and the lifting of "roadblocks" to let "infrastructure projects like the Keystone Pipeline move forward."